WISDOM WHIFFS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 165, 6 August 1909, Page 3

WISDOM WHIFFS.

People will nearly always tell the truth when they can make something by doing it. Generally a man who thinks he is witty is about as successful at entertaining you as a nail in your shoe. The average man seems to think the lest w«v to get ahead in the world is i to hold some other fellow back. The man who becomes famous usually does so through the efforts of others to prove that he isn't. There's hardly a man who doesn't < T'i pretend when he goes to a rcs- • nt that he's so well known there t 'lways try to do sojnething ■special jor him. Sec how far vou arc a good man. Have vou helped'a fallen brother? Arc rmi keeping yourspjf brave and true? Ave you reaching your moral ideals, and, above all, are you raising each ideal as you reach it a peg higher? j There are some people whose religion • wouldn't fool the most credulous person on earth, but tliev expect the Lord to swallow it. Some people seem to think they arc • charitable because they dream of giving away money—and let it go at that. Some men never succeed because they arc afraid of doing more than their share. t # The longer a man studies the curves of a decanter the closer lie is apt to imitate them on his homeward journey.